For the last few months I've been researching and producing a Podcast for SPYSCAPE on Lee Harvey Oswald and the CIA. Today, Ep.1 goes live to subscribers and to everyone else on 18th. It's hosted/narrated by the amazing Daisy Ridley and LHO is voiced by Ed Norton.

Popping this here as I go off to IPSA and then my first proper holiday since December. Tempted to not come back. 86 days of pay deductions.

Excellent article by Judith Moritz who covered the #lucyletby trial in full. That must have been a tough one. I doubt we’ll ever know why Lucy did it. I doubt even Lucy does. “What I learned about Lucy Letby after 10 months in court” bbc.co.uk/news/uk-661040…

Be a lady they said. Your skirt is too short, your skirt is too long… delivery Cynthia Nixon. By Camille Rainville. Powerful.

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I got chucked out of class for reading my mum's copy of Flowers in the Attic, age 11. Sophie's World at 14 turned me into a vegetarian. The Handmaid's Tale at 16 was my first taste of feminism. Having to censor books is heartbreaking nytimes.com/2023/09/01/opi…

In the first episode of “The Weekend Intelligence” Jessica Camille Aguirre asks what it would look like to live on the Moon—and why you would want to. Listen to our new podcast, exclusively for subscribers: econ.st/3QBJKGa 👇

Myself and the brilliant team at The Economist have launched “The Weekend Intelligence”: a podcast which aims to expand horizons. Today, two of our correspondents explore the hope and the heartbreak of IVF. It’s in front of the paywall so please share: econ.st/47AabBN

Today on “The Weekend Intelligence”: the hope and heartbreak of IVF. This is a story about the pain, the hope and the despair that is paid for a life to be created. Listen here: econ.st/3MyCKqX 👇

How do you put a price on the loss of freedom? Can you inherit guilt? Should descendants of slave-owners have to pay reparations? If so, how much? Charlie McCann grapples with these questions in “The Weekend Intelligence” podcast: econ.st/3QRY11u 🎧

In June, Charlie McCann and I traveled to Guyana for The Economist We joined the Gladstone family as they apologised for their ancestor’s role in enslaving thousands of people, 200 years ago Our podcast addresses legacy, slavery, and reparations 🎧 economist.com/podcasts/2023/…

Proud to announce the latest ep of our new pod, “The Weekend Intelligence” – “The Apology”. The brilliant Charlie McCann and @Roryjgalloway travel to Guyana with the Gladstone family to find out how you apologise for the sins of your ancestors economist.com/podcasts/2023/…

What is so wrong about this BBC Question Time is: Geneva Conventions + UN Security Resolution 2286 clear on this, UN health agencies are screaming out for this to stop, & you have no Palestinian health experts on the panel. Another example of health attacks as clickbait

In the latest episode of our new podcast “The Weekend Intelligence” Liz Cookman tells the story of Oleh, the man who escaped a war zone and now lives in the forest. Told to the brilliant Jason Palmer and produced by the brilliant Sam Westran economist.com/podcasts/2023/…

At the @killedwomen protest at parliament, where “grave markers” have been erected.

My Tortoise story today on private companies providing children’s social care - just *one* co’s accounts show £136 million of taxpayers’ money funnelled to private equity lenders instead of into caring for children. Thanks to Martin Barrow for alert. tortoisemedia.com/2024/03/27/chi…

My special report out today in Law Society Gazette is published with The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. I interview a mother who alleges the evidence of a court-appointed psychologist was used by her ex-partner to bolster his harassment of her after she was accused of parental alienation. shorturl.at/GTV39

Just over 3 weeks ago the Weekend Intelligence team started working on a story about Sudan and the war the world ignores. We published to subscribers yesterday. We'll make it free for everyone at the end of the week. Please listen tinyurl.com/4vf7vwwx

We think "the world the war ignores" needs more attention so this week we're publishing our Sudan episode in front of the paywall. Please listen and share. Thanks to Tom Gardner Heidi Pett Claire Read Karla Imogen Serwotka shows.acast.com/theintelligenc… The Economist

One of the brilliant things about working at the Economist is that we have correspondents EVERYWHERE. So when we wanted to find out what Wagner is up to in the Central African Republic, we asked our Africa Correspondent Tom Gardner to go find out economist.com/podcasts/2024/…